Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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